Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies.
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What does GA returning visitors calculation mean?
I'm a bit confused as to what 'returning visitors' mean in Google Analytics. If a user visited my site a year ago, and now returning, will he be considered a returning visitor? Is there any way to ...
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Google references subfolders
Last week I launched a website and created a robots.txt:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://mywebsite.tld/sitemap_robots.xml
Now I've checked the indexed pages (Google -> ...
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Can't Access Old Analytics Account [closed]
I set up Google Analytics for my site a few years ago, so the tracking code is installed, but I haven't logged in for a very long time.
Now, I can't log in to access the stats. I am logged in to both ...
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Website not showing up on Google after removal of blocking robots metatags [duplicate]
A friend asked me to take a look at their website, which had been online for several months, but did not show up on Google. I noticed that they had a subdomain which did show up, so the query
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Why do all pages bar the home page turn up in Google? [duplicate]
Our website is made with WordPress. The menu pages all turn up in Google searches, but the index page doesn't. The index page is absent; the others are there.
Why would this be?
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google webmaster tools - I want to target by language, should I add location targeting?
I have a multilingual site, which I would like to target by language. Google Webmaster tools provides the option to add a subdomain per language sub-domain which can be geo targeted. If I'm more ...
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Google Pagerank (PR) History and Next Upcoming Updates [closed]
As you may know Google updates PageRank roughly 4 times a year, out of interest and not for ranking purposes I often check when the next incoming update is. I do this by searching various sites and ...
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Directing crawlers to content in language per language sub-domain
I have a site with multilingual website with many pages (40M). The site has UGC, and each translation is actually for the titles. Each sub-domain points to the same content with different titles per ...
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Does being a Google News publisher affect current ranking of site?
I run a large multiple author platform that rank very well on Google. Our content qualifies for the Google News publishing program. My concern is, if I will join this, will my current ranking for ...
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Solving “Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.”
I'm getting the following warning over and over again in google webmaster tools
Googlebot encountered extremely large numbers of links on your site.
The examples he's showing don't give me much ...
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Multilingual website avoiding duplicate content and right referral in SERP
I have a site with UGC in many languages. The translation I'm doing is for the titles so for each page I have multiple copies, one per language. I want to make sure
Search engines don't see this as ...
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Good idea if I only have <header> and <footer> inside <article>?
Due to nature of my blog I don't need to display any content, I only need to display a title inside a <header> and some meta info inside <footer> both inside article. Above them there is ...
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My webpage works using http, but not using www
I'm sorry to repeat this question as I saw it was previously asked. I would just like the answer in something that a complete idiot and newbie web developer (me) can understand.
I actually hired a ...
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Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description
I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that ...
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How to avoid duplicate content even when using 301 redirections?
I manage a website with tens of thousands of pages named /view.php?id=1234 and so on. Because we wanted it to be more SEO-friendly, a 301 Moved Permanently redirection of each one of them to ...